Review – Good Fortune
Artist: Airborn Audio
Review – Golden Ocean
Artist: 50 Foot Wave
TAILORED TO FIT
Movie: The Jacket
Review – Stereotypes Inc.
Artist: Euphrates
Movie: The Pacifier
Our Rating: 3.00 It was the run-ragged parents who were laughing – often more loudly than the kids – at the Saturday-morning screening of what’s being called “the remake of Kindergarten Cop.” Please, Vin Diesel’s muscles are SO much sexier than Arnold’s, and the writers’ sense of character is SO much more fun. From the…
Review – Sing the Troubled Beast/Diablo Guapo
Artist: Bastro
VIETNAMESE REP GROWS STRONGER
For the last 10 years, I have been conducting a secret experiment: When traveling to other cities, I seek out Vietnamese restaurants to compare with the ones in Orlando. Unwittingly, restaurants in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, New York and Washington, D.C., have been put to the test, and not one of those exalted…
Review – Love’s a Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Golden Ocean
Artist: 50 Foot Wave
Review – Good Fortune
Artist: Airborn Audio
Review – Stereotypes Inc.
Artist: Euphrates
TAILORED TO FIT
Movie: The Jacket
Review – Sing the Troubled Beast/Diablo Guapo
Artist: Bastro
Movie: The Pacifier
The Pacifier Length: 1 hour, 41 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pacifier/ Release Date: 2005-03-04 Cast: Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Brittany Snow, Faith Ford, Carol Kane Director: Adam Shankman Screenwriter: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Scott Alexander WorkNameSort: The Pacifier Our Rating: 3.00 It was the run-ragged parents who were laughing – often more…
Review – Love’s a Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa
Artist: Various Artists
Coldstone Creamery
Drawing crowds of the lactose-tolerant who snap it up when servers slap great heaps of ice cream directly onto a refrigerated marble counter. Then they’ll fold in any number of additions, from fruit to candy bars to gummy bears.
Review – Good Fortune
Artist: Airborn Audio
TAILORED TO FIT
Movie: The Jacket
Movie: The Pacifier
Our Rating: 3.00 It was the run-ragged parents who were laughing – often more loudly than the kids – at the Saturday-morning screening of what’s being called “the remake of Kindergarten Cop.” Please, Vin Diesel’s muscles are SO much sexier than Arnold’s, and the writers’ sense of character is SO much more fun. From the…
Review – Golden Ocean
Artist: 50 Foot Wave
Review – Stereotypes Inc.
Artist: Euphrates
Review – Sing the Troubled Beast/Diablo Guapo
Artist: Bastro
Review – Love’s a Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa
Artist: Various Artists
RETURN TO PARIS
“My va-jay-jay itches,” yeasts my friend Anna scratchily into her cell phone. And after a few screams at the coining of a perfect euphemism, I’m convinced: She’s coming with me. “Mine too!” I ingrow a hair. “Let’s take our loose lips to Clu-jay-jay Pa-jay-jay!” In addition to the fact that, thanks to Anna, I’m throwing…
HELP! SEND THONGS!
Some of the well-intentioned donations for victims of the December tsunami are bewilderingly inappropriate (such as ski jackets and Viagra), according to a February Wall Street Journal dispatch from Sri Lanka. Relief workers are being distracted by shipments of, for example, moisturizing gel, sweaters, women’s dress shoes, Arctic-weather tents and thong underwear. Crucial medicines were…
We mingle at MegaCon, catch a Buzz at happy hour and slam a puppy mill
Some people refuse to grow up, and there’s a convention for them held annually here in Orlando. It’s called MegaCon. No, that’s not a description of the event from disgruntled participants. That’s really the name of the thing. People into comics, toys, TV shows, movies and games come from as far as Japan and Australia…
RIDING HIGH ON HUMP DAY
In the middle of a harried workweek, what could be better than escaping the house to sit around with friends sipping syrah and playing Scrabble? Or maybe pinot grigio and Clue is more your style. Perhaps you’re not sure what wines you like but are eager to learn more. That’s exactly what Whole Foods Market…
We mingle at MegaCon, catch a Buzz at happy hour and slam a puppy mill
Some people refuse to grow up, and there’s a convention for them held annually here in Orlando. It’s called MegaCon. No, that’s not a description of the event from disgruntled participants. That’s really the name of the thing. People into comics, toys, TV shows, movies and games come from as far as Japan and Australia…
THE NEW FACE OF GLOBAL POP
An office park might be the last place you’d expect to stumble into a multi-million-dollar pop-music extravaganza. But, unbeknownst to the golfers on the course or the students at the Keiser College outpost sharing this anonymous patch of real estate in West Palm Beach, there’s a whole lot of rock spectacle going on just out…
VA UNDER FIRE
More than any other war in U.S. history, the conflict in Iraq has provoked a surge of concern for soldiers returning home bearing the psychological burdens of battle. From the war’s first days, veterans groups, mental health organizations and some members of Congress have claimed that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is unprepared to…
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY
There’s finally a challenger to NCAA March Madness, the perennial console game blessed with the overexcited ramblings of color commentator Dick Vitale, the former Detroit Mercy and Pistons coach. Though his schtick soon becomes wearying, it does help the game’s aura – after all, Dicky V. is synonymous with college basketball broadcasts. The game play…
MISERY LOVES THIS COMPANY
Eugene O’Neill, one of America’s greatest dramatists, wrote his last play in 1947, A Moon for the Misbegotten. It was a contradictory work – a unique blend of comedy, melodrama, autobiography and imagination that combined the farcical with the tragic and the illusory with the real. A failure in its first Drama Guild incarnation, it…
GOTH LIKE ME
Nicholas Dykes looks like a ghost standing in his bedroom. His dyed black hair is parted down the middle and brushes against the tops of his shoulders. With shaved eyebrows and a black Alien Sex Fiend T-shirt, the 15-year-old looks dark and depressed. His skin is dusted with white powder and smoky red eye shadow…
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Mezzanine, Danzig, Orlando Folk Festival and more
Thursday • 3 SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM We sure do love the ol’ Sleepytime crew and we love it that they always make it a point to play Orlando. Their theatrical shows are heavy and funny and dark and weird and loud and spooky and silly, which pretty much covers all of our moods (except for…
“A prayer for the vying”
“Don’t thank God. God’s busy working on the tsunami, so leave him alone.” – Chris Rock, advising potential Oscar winners how to behave; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Feb. 21 Hi, everybody. God here. I know you weren’t expecting to turn to this page and find Me prattling away at you. Well, what can…
MEASURED IN MINUTES
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS “Everybody gets nominated for an Academy Award eventually,” pooh-poohs interview subject Ryan Larkin in Chris Landreth’s Ryan, one of eight short subjects featured in DMAC’s showcase of 2004 Oscar nominees. What’s funny about Larkin’s declaration is that it arrives in the midst of one of the few Academy-honored shorts (of this or…
